Guidelines of Online Article Submission

Posted by Article Pole on February 3rd, 2016

With the advent of technology, things have been widely changed. It has affected day to day lives of people as well. Gone are the days of traditional marketing. Today online marketing techniques are adopted to reach larger number of audiences. People make use of online resources to gather information related to their required products and services. They get whatever information they want from online sites and then make the final decision of either buying or not. It will be very simple to say that today manufacturer not only offers customized products but also they are marketing their offerings in a way their customers want them to.  Looking at the technological world, you might be so far convinced that publishing articles online free of cost is one of the easiest and quickest ways of getting free traffic. What actually happens is that you offer free content to people in exchange of traffic from the links.

Keeping in view this fact, you might have written many articles and question that would have arisen in your mind would be if you’re content is ready to be published or not. Almost all the article directories have their own submission guidelines for all those people who want to get their articles published for whatever purpose. These guidelines may differ from one directory to another. Some of the generalized and common guidelines are mentioned below:

Content: Article directories never allow the publication of articles that directly promote some products or specific brands. Articles that these directories publish online are the ones that are rich in general information. Therefore, before you set to write the article, keep in your mind that your content should not mention any particular brand in the body of the article. Otherwise it will not be published.  Moreover, you must not add links in the article body. Also there are directories that do not allow the images in the articles. In order to stay away from inconvenience, you need to ensure if the directory allows you to add on images or not. At times the directories also demand summary of the article, hence be prepared for that. Policies of directories related to plagiarism are seriously strict. Hence make sure that you do not copy and paste anything at all.

Word Count: Take care of the designated word count for the articles. Most of the online articles require 300 to 500 words in a single article.

Formatting: Most of the directories demand articles in the plain text or from notepad. These directories also follow strict strategies related to title formatting. Hence always follow the instructions.

Resource box: This box usually contains the links to generate traffic. When you will do this, make sure that your links are working properly.

Keeping in view all these above mentioned points will ensure that you article will be published in any of the free article directorysites. All one must do is to be vigilant and careful about guidelines of the directory where one wants to submit ones article.

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